List of Figures
List of Contributors
Foreword
Introduction: Challenging perspectives on museums and the Great War
Paul Cornish
PART I: Museums, Identities and the Politics of Memory
1: From one war to another: German army museums and exhibitions on the First World War, 1914-1940. Thomas Weissbrich.
2: The Great War in French Museums 1914-2018. Bérénice Zunino.
3: Curating on the frontier: The Museum of the Great War in Gorizia, Italy. Alessandra Martina.
4: Curating Dominion Narratives of the Great War. Jennifer Wellington.
5: Curating the Great War at the Imperial War Museum During the Second World War. Philip W. Deans.
PART II: Museums and Materialities
6: East of the Jordan: Curating and forgetting the First World War and the Arab Revolt along the Hejaz Railway. Nicholas J. Saunders.
7: Conflict Landscape as Museum and Memorial: The Walk of Peace from the Alps to the Adriatic. Željko Cimprić.
8: Digging a trench in an upstairs gallery: Commemorating the Great War in rural Dorset. Martin Barry.
9. Curating the Great War in Poland: The prisoner-of-war camp at Czersk. Dawid Kobiałka.
10: Curating the Macedonian Campaign. Andrew Shapland.
11: ‘Oh! What a Lovely Exhibition!’: Exploring the Imperial War Museum’s First World War 50th anniversary displays, 1964-1968. James Wallis.
12: Te Papa’s Gallipoli: The scale of our war: Curating innovation. Kirstie Ross.
PART III: Audiences and Engagement
13: Curating The Sensory War, 1914-2014: Emotions, sensations and the violence of modern war. Ana Carden-Coyne.
14: Forgotten War? Coping with First World War trauma, and strategies for centenary commemoration in the Federal State of Tyrol, Austria. Isabelle Brandauer.
15: Curating the Masonic Peace Memorial. Mark Dennis.
16: What need of tears?: Collaborative memorial-making in the centenary of The Great War. Steve Dixon.
17: Contested memories: Exhibiting the Great War in the Ulster Museum, Belfast. Siobhán Doyle.
18: The predicament of material culture: In situ legacies of the Isonzo Front after the First World War centenary (2014–2018). Boštjan Kravanja.
Afterword: Commemorating the First World today: The In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres, Belgium. Dominiek Dendooven.
Index
Biography
Paul Cornish was, for 32 years, a curator at Imperial War Museums. He is co-editor of the Routledge series Material Culture and Modern Conflict.
Nicholas J. Saunders is Professor of Material Culture at Bristol University, UK, and co-director of the ‘Great Arab Revolt Project‘.
